Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enmity that existed between the imported Scottish and English "planters" and the oppressed native Gaels was deepened by religious hatred between Catholic and Protestant. A venomous drinking toast dating back to the early days of the Protestant Orange Order illustrates how savage feelings were...
...glorious, pious and immortal memory of King William the Third, who saved us from Rogues and Roguery, Slaves and Slavery, Knaves and Knavery, Popes and Popery, from brass money and wooden shoes; and whoever denies this toast may he be slammed, crammed and jammed into the muzzle of the gun of Athlone and the gun fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked and the key in an Orangeman's pocket; and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick...
Come Again. Dinner was described by Reston as a "neverending stream," featuring such fare as sea slugs and quail eggs. Chou proposed a toast with a glass of the strong Chinese liquor mao-tai, but did not swallow a drop. At one point, Reston went after a decorative but tough leaf under his portion of ground pork and drew a polite reproof from his host: "Please don't eat the lotus leaves...
...speeches in which he urged an easing of tensions with China. For the first time since the Communist takeover of China, a presidential document in 1970 referred to the "People's Republic of China" instead of "Communist" or "Red" China. The President used the phrase again in a toast to President Ceausescu. The Administration sought to make it clear that "we were not bound by previous history." That meant in Indochina too. Perhaps the most crucial message delivered to Peking was that Nixon wanted out of Viet...
...Even so, he complains, "I've had to adapt to normal sizes all my life." Not any more. To contain his outsize physique, Chamberlain is building a $1,000,000 house in the Hollywood hills. Soon he will be able to enter a 14-ft. doorway, toast in front of a 45-ft. fireplace, plunge into a 14-ft.-deep pool and loll on an 8-ft. by 9-ft. bed in a 1,000-sq.-ft. boudoir under a 14-ft. ceiling...